Widening participation

HESA researchers explore whether family composition may be a factor that explains why some students respond with ‘I don’t know’ when asked about the qualifications attained by their parents in the UCAS form.

New working paper provides further analysis of HESA's new measure of disadvantage.

First-in-family data has been the subject of discussion within the sector over the past year. In this piece, HESA assess the quality of the parental education information we collect.

HESA researchers look further at the utility of their new measure of disadvantage to the higher education sector.

A new UK-wide small-area-based measure of disadvantage is able to pick up deprivation in parts of the country where current area-level measures are less effective.

HESA's Data and Innovation team use Census statistics to assess the quality of HESA's parental education and socio-economic classification data.